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So a few years ago I did a project for the Genetic Algorithms assignment at college. My idea was to have tiny multi-cell organisms that have a simple goal: travel as far as possible! maybe to find new resources or escape from predators, you pick one 🙂
So the fitness of a creature is measured by how far it can go during its life span.

The creatures will start with random moving cells and evolve to more organized creatures with organized movements.

Please watch the video before reading. If the video failed to make you interested then I doubt that the text would succeed. You can also download the executable and the source code available at the end of this post.

So you want to make your first Android game or want to make a live wallpaper or just a simple 3D scene?
On Android, games use OpenGL ES 2 for rendering, which means you’ll have to learn it, even if you want to use a game engine it’s always good to know how stuff works on a low level.

By learning OpenGL ES2, you’ll be also learning WebGL since they both use the same set of functions.

OpenGL ES2 is cross-platform which means once you learn the API on a specific platform you will only need to know some platform-specific details to get your game to the other platforms.

A few weeks ago (during exams period 😛 ) I was playing with spring physics, it turned out to be easy to implement and the results were cool enough for me to write a demo in Android, Microsoft XNA, and Javascript :D.

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Hello, it’s been more than three months since my last post, it’s also been more than three months since I last opened Visual Studio :(. A few days ago I decided that I should write something with XNA, that’s when I decided to write Hex Screen :D.

Hex Screen?

Hex screen is a 3D screen made up from hexagons, the cool thing about this screen is that hexagons can be animated to give nice effects, hexagons can be rotated, moved and scaled.

Hello there, sorry for being inactive lately but I don’t feel like programming or learning something new :(.

Anyway, I fixed the issue in FuchsGUI where some text was blurry, the reason was that the text was being rendered with floating point values for position, something like (20.3f,29.4), this meant that spriteBatch should split physical pixels :(.

Anyway, thanks to a guy named Fab who told me how to fix this, the solution was something like this: